The good news is that frozen eggs have a high survival rate, and no increased risk of genetic defects among frozen-egg offspring have been reported thus far.
Neither golden nor very tasty, the hash browns are a shadow of what they used to be, and only look good insofar as the scrambled eggs quite simply look inedible.
Paying protection money in the form of food for the cowbird nestling thus looks a good deal from the warbler's point of view, and explains why cowbirds do not need to disguise their eggs to look like those of prothonotaries.